James Debono

James Debono

James Debono is MaltaToday's chief reporter on environment, planning and land use issues, and one of the newspaper's main political analysts. Apart from blogging regularly on politics, James Debono won the IĠM national press awards' environmental reporter of the year in 2011 and in 2025. Debono coordinates MaltaToday's surveys, which has conducted polls on all electoral appointments since 2008. He read history and obtained his Masters' degree from the University of Malta, and in the past worked for TV production house Where's Everybody before joining MaltaToday in 2005. A co-founder of Moviment Graffitti and active in Moviment ghall-Ambjent, he served as a media officer for Alternattiva Demokratika - the Green Party.

Articles by this author
Isolation hospital extension extends beyond ODZ line
National
The development proposed by Malta Healthcare Caterers, a subsidiary of the Seabank hotel, includes an additional storey on the existing hospital and extensive demolition within...
MEPA ignores agricultural watchdog as villa rises out of ashes of phantom farm
National
Controversial permit for a villa set on agricultural land, issued on the pretext that neighbouring garage once served as a livestock farm, was not vetted by the Agricultural...